Meet The Trustees

Pauline Grainger

Chairwoman
Pauline has spent the whole of her working life in the NHS. She qualified as a General and psychiatric nurse with a special interest latterly in Elderly Care and Rehabilitation. She retired from her post of Executive Nurse to the Trust Board of Central Sheffield University Hospitals in March 1997. She was delighted to be asked to join Sheffcare as a trustee in March 2001. Pauline believed that her past experience would enable her to make a positive contribution to the Board of Trustees. She thoroughly enjoyed visiting all the homes and was very impressed with the quality of care she observed. Pauline said, “The enthusiasm of all staff caring for residents and day care clients was very much in evidence; this is due, in no small part, to the amount and quality of training provided for all Sheffcare staff.” Pauline took on the role of Chairwoman from February 2006 and commented that; “It was a very exciting time to assume this responsibility, with the longed for rebuilding programme now well underway. I am proud to be associated with the Company and look forward to the future when Sheffcare will lead the way in providing the best quality residential care homes in the country.”

Neil Cameron

Trustee
Neil is an Architect by profession and is currently the Director of Estates at the University of Sheffield. Born and brought up in the wilds of Scotland, he has worked all over England and abroad but settled in Sheffield 12 years ago. His three children have completed their schooling here and are now gradually leaving home! Neil was approached in 2004 to bring construction and facilities management experience to the board. As a trustee, he has developed a keen interest in the particular housing and environmental needs of elderly people and, of course, the exciting Sheffcare rebuilding programme

Adele Jagger

Trustee
Adele joined the Board of Trustees in 2005 and as a new member is enjoying learning how SheffCare works. She is particularly interested in the care provided for elderly people believing that their comfort, dignity and happiness are paramount. She was born in Sheffield and has lived and worked here all her life. Work was teaching, mostly in Primary Schools, until she, reluctantly, retired in 2005. She is now a school governor and visits the school one afternoon each week to assist in various classrooms. Adele has taken an active part in local politics and is a volunteer with Sheffield Talking News, a charity founded in the 1980’s in Sheffield to help the visually impaired access local news. She reads onto tapes and edits articles from local newspapers which all waive their copyright. To relax she is learning Italian and the piano (this last after a ‘lay off’ of 53 years!) She also enjoys her grandchildren who range in age from three months to seven years.

Tony Warnes

Trustee
Tony Warnes is a researcher and academic, and Professor of Social Gerontology (the study of old age and ageing) at the Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing (SISA) in the University of Sheffield. His interests in the subject go back a long way, but his most recent projects have been about older migrants, training care-home staff and homelessness in old age. A project in 2006-08 will be into the potential of 'assistive and telecare technologies' for supporting older people with impairments and dependencies. Tony has worked with numerous organisations concerned with the welfare and activities of older people. From 1994 to 2000 he was Chair of the British Society of Gerontology, the association of social scientists with special interests in studies of older people, and he is Editor of Ageing & Society (Cambridge University Press).

Pamela Perriam

Trustee
Pamela Perriam joined SheffCare as a Trustee in 2004, having had an opportunity to get to know something of its working and to feel the care and commitment underpinning its activities. Prior to that she had a varied working life, the latter part of which has been spent working with, and for, older people. She was Development Officer for the emergence of Age Concern Sheffield, later becoming its Director for a period of 12 years. She continues to be involved with other work in the city, including that of Darnall Dementia Group. Relaxation usually means walking, Scottish country dancing, reading and music.

Richard Morton

Trustee
Richard is a librarian by profession and is currently working as Campus Manager of the Adsetts Learning Centre at Hallam University. His previous experience includes such far flung outposts as Torquay, Paignton and Barnsley Libraries. He has a wide ranging experience of dementia and is a long standing member of the local branch of the Alzheimers Society and the Princes Royal Trust Sheffield Carers Centre. He became a trustee when his mother, Enid, a Sheffield primary school teacher, developed Alzheimers and became a resident of Sheffcare's Springwood Residential Home. His interests includes building management and care facilities.

Richard Frost

Trustee
Richard Frost is managing partner of Hawsons, Chartered Accountants, based in Sheffield. He joined the board of Sheffcare in 2005 having previously spent 10 years on the board of Sheffield City Trust . Before branching out on its own Sheffcare had been a subsidiary of City Trust. Richard is a past president of both the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Sheffield and District Society of Chartered Accountants and continues as Honorary Treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce.

Mavis Sellars

Trustee
Mavis came to Sheffield as a physiotherapy student and after three years in the USA spent most of her career in the local hospitals. Her speciality as a clinician was in rehabilitation, particularly of stroke patients. She then worked as a manager at the Northern General Hospital prior to becoming the District Physiotherapist of Sheffield. She developed physiotherapy services in the Community, including nursing homes, and GP Practices. In 1993 she was appointed Director of Therapy Services (Occupational therapy and Physiotherapy) for Community and Mental Health Services until her retirement in 2000. She is currently Chairman of Trinity Day Care Trust, which provides services for physically disabled people. Her first involvement with Sheffcare was in training staff in Handling and Moving.

Steve Essam

Trustee
Steve is currently Group Human Resources Director for the successful international healthcare business Tunstall, based in Yorkshire and Chair of their pension scheme trustee board. Tunstall provides a variety of support solutions for elderly and vulnerable people, which helps increase their quality of life whilst offering reassurance to both the elderly clients and their families. He has been with the company for more than 10 years and has over 23 years HR experience (16 years at a senior level) in a variety of public and private sector organisations. Steve has lived in Sheffield for nearly 30 years and was delighted to be asked to join the Board of Trustees in 2008. He has direct experience of care for the elderly and the care challenges they can face as life expectancy continually increases. For a number of years he worked with his family in supporting his own parents when one developed Alzheimer’s and the other Parkinson’s disease. As a consequence his mother spent some time in a residential / nursing home. He passionately believes that appropriate high quality care and support should be available to all senior members of society if they require it.